SAGES AND SUKTA The oldest Veda is the Rigveda, composed about 3500 years ago. The Rigveda includes more than a thousand hymns, called sukta or “well-said”. These hymns are in praise of
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HOW HISTORIANS STUDY THE RIGVEDA Historians, like archaeologists, find out about the past, but, in addition to material remains, they examine written sources as well. Let us see how they study the
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